BUS 540 Week 6 Assignment part 2 (re-visit)

As committed, it's time to re-visit Week 6 Assignment to review Google Analytics data on 9th of April.

• Build links to your site or blog


Links available on my blog.
http://lowedmond.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-website-found-for-san-jose.html
http://lowedmond.blogspot.com/search/label/Badminton%20Hot%20Deal

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Also the link to http://lowedmond.blogspot.com/ is also added to my:

1. Linked in - My Blog (Interesting information provided by linked in on the no. of view scored)
2. Twitter - Web
3. Facebook account. - Links
4. uLearn - Forums
   

• Analyze your Google metrics - ECD: 4/9

A) It's time to review the Google Analytics (GA) that i enrolled to since March 28.

• Manage to set up the GA tools on both of my blogs on 28th March and gather 2 weeks data.
• Below is the chart of the overview of both the website profile
• In summary, "usedracket blog" scored 40 visits and "My Blog" scored 113 visit.

B) Then, the following chart shows the Dashboard of "My Blog" website.

• We observed the peak of no. of visits happen started on 4th and 5th of April.
• This is because i posted the link in my Facebook account on 4th of April (two postings).

C) Let's review the Map Overlay summary (this is interesting for me as i can monitor where are the users from).

• Out of the 117 visits that "My Blog" scored - 74 visits generated from US and 43 from Malaysia.
• 74 visits from US are mainly from California area. Based on my analysis and prediction - The visitors are mostly from CALMAT MBA students, my colleagues & linked in users in Bay area. (shown below)
• Average time spent : ~12 minutes (prooven that CALMAT users are really doing their homework in reading blogs)

• Meanwhile, 43 visits are from my home country Malaysia and the visitors are mainly from my Facebook Malaysia friends - 31 out of 55 friends in my facebook account.
• And again, the visitors from Malaysia started surfing "My Blog" when i posted the link in my Facebook on 4th April
• As "My Blog" content is more on the MBA studies, Malaysia visitors did not spend much time surfing it as it is not in their interest.

D) Review of the traffic sources (another important part of the metrics)

• This piece of information provid eme the outlook of which sources that users/ visitor manage to find my websites.
• Top Traffics sources - "Blogger.com"
• Unexpected sources - "google search page."

E) Content Overview page.

• This is another interesting facts gather to monitor the traffic of visitors on specific page or posting.
• This give me the overview which content is able to attract the visitors.
  

Below is another Overall summary of the Dashboard of "usedracket.blogspot.com" website that i am monitoring.

• Post your findings in the forum for discussion – Done